Originally Posted by
george77300
The Dubai it's on is BA107/106. This would not allow adequate time to do the first morning MAD flight.
Secondly confirmed in other thread to be doing NO MAD flights in September. I think September is well and truly done. The question now is how long in August they operate.
Maybe I'm having a moment but why wouldn't it be enough time?
My logic is it could still do 107/106 (LHR DXB) then 456/457 (LHR MAD) on 2nd Sept. onwards as follows:
Then return DXB to LHR (106) so returning on morning of 3rd Sept:
upon which time (after gate turnaround) to do the 456 to MAD:
And then come back to LHR (457) for the turn around to do the DXB (107) next run on 3rd Sept:
Obviously the timing is tight in the above tables (and dates show a week difference but that is just me being lazy in grabbing screenshots)...we also know that BA give themselves plenty of time in the above flight times to deal with delays so it could be feasible to do this rotation (although it is more trouble to do long haul, change to CE meals then change back to CW meals but maybe that is also good for familiarisation? and given lighter loads on MAD run they could utilise some extra galley space for the change overs?)
Appreciate that a poster has said it won't do the MAD run in Sept...but let's check what that is based on before we jump to conclusions? (I appreciate my thoughts above are tenuous and leave no play room but just want to check this before we assume too much...
Thoughts? (or point out my error in logic?